YowCH & Grace

Today, YowCH took leave and brought Joseph and Samuel to the Treetop Walk at Macritchie. Click the photo below for more photos in the dedicated page:

After the hike, we drove home to pick Grace and had Rollie Ollie lunch in Star Vista. After lunch, we got a Liho pearly milk tea drink and then went to Teo Heng Karaoke for some singing fun:



After karaoke, we shopped a bit more, and as we spent more than $80 in Star Vista and claimed an inflatable sofa (for our next picnic!).

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We watched with great interest the developments of the Malaysian General Elections 14 (2018). By 2:45am on 10 May 2018, it was announced on RTM1 that BN has lost the majority.


Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the fourth Prime Minister from 1981 to 2003, returned to the PM post as the seventh PM under Pakatan Harapan (the opposition to BN) at 9:30pm on 10 May 2018, as he was sworn into office.

This is the first change of ruling party in all 61 years of Malaysia. Many records were made in Malaysia, including the youngest elected MP at 22, oldest elected PM at 92, ending of longest reign of the ruling party, most states not won by the incumbent ruling party. All-in-all, we thank God for a smooth and organised election and transfer of power.

We also re-contracted David’s line, and he now has a new iPhone 8 with 64GB, and a jelly case with his basketball hero.

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YowCH’s colleagues organised a birthday makan for him and 2 other colleagues on 7 May 2018.

We ordered Mexican food from Guzman Y Gomez, delivered via FoodPanda.

On 8 May, we got Joseph his spectacles at Owndays, Tiong Bahru Plaza, for $138. Done in 45mins from checking to collection. He has myopia and astigmatism of about 125 on his eyes.

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Grace re-contracted and is now using the Samsung S9 (Coral Blue). Nice phone, YowCH will likely get this soon.

We went for our regular swim, and Samuel swam 8 laps continuously. That’s 400m.

We also asked our coach to help us take a family portrait underwater.

This is YowCH after 10 laps of freestyle. At 44 today, he looked very tired. So he had a heavy lunch.

Actually, the plate of goodies was shared with the family. This nice roast meat stall is Kay Lee at Henderson Road.

For dinner, we met the Yongs and ate Korean food at Toa Payoh Central.

And to end the birthday night, Grace made a grapefruit soju for YowCH:

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Samuel swam 5 laps continuously, that’s 250m! Lots of distance for a little boy.

YowCH bought Transformer Cogman last week. A nice model, and a nice Aston Martin DB11!

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On 19 Feb 2018, SJ started work with a lion dance. YowCH was on leave and school opens on 20 Feb, so YowCH brought the children to watch (Grace just ended her night shift, so she slept at home).


When the lion tossed an orange at Joseph, he very coolly caught it, while being on the stairs landing.


Not many colleagues were working on Monday, here’s a group photos of Infra and Geo combined.

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West Coast Wolves hosted the West league at Clementi Stadium on Sunday, 27 Feb 2018 from 7:00am to 5:00pm.

YowCH was the photographer and odd-job guy.

Grace and Samuel were there, too.







David arrived at the field at about 2:15pm for the U15 games.

After lunch, it was the U12 and U15 games, and Grace took Samuel and Joseph to Sorrento.








Due to pouring rain and lightning risks, the finals were cancelled and the U15 had joint winners West Coast Wolves and Taman Jurong.

Senior Minister S Iswaran was present to give away the medals.

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We had our first cell-group meeting at the Tan’s new place at Upper Thomson on Friday 19 Jan.

For Grace’s 20th anniversary with KKH, she received a certificate, a notepad, $400 of vouchers and $100 in a cash-card.

YowCH has been running regularly, from 2.5km to 5.0km. Even on 14 Jan when it was drizzling and the air temperature as the lowest in Singapore (since 2016) at 22°C.

YowCH also managed to swim 500m (10 laps) non stop in free style for the first time. Grace is now regularly doing 20 laps of breast stroke with some breaks in between laps.

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We had friendly games with Shoot Academy, a Japanese football club on 14 Jan. They were really good and we were practically trashed, but fun time playing.

After a tough game, and with very low temperature in Singapore, eating Korean BBQ was great.

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YowCH went for a health check on 24 Oct with health screening and treadmill.

He got the results on 16 Nov and thank God his results shows that everything is in good order except for slightly high cholesterol and suggestion to reduce alcohol. Exercises to e 30 mins long 3 times weekly.

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